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Titled "Saying Goodbye", this painting was created in Photoshop with a limited color pallette derived from Degas paintings, it is meant to be Neo-baroque, and classical in style. Created for the monthly challenge on The Gnomon Workshop, it won the March "Catacombs" challenge.]]> Sat, 12 Apr 2008 17:51:07 +0000 http://christianhammer.cgsociety.org/gallery/783924

Painted in Corel Painter XI, from a drawing of mine. Kind of a combination Labrynth, Dark Crystal sort of thing. ]]> Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:30:12 +0000 http://christianhammer.cgsociety.org/gallery/763765

This painting was begun as a speedpaint while I was attending the Massive Black/Concept Art event in Seattle 2008. It has been worked over so many times it little resembles the original. I have this idea for an angel of fury that is literally an animate explosion. Why would a “living” explosion need a sword? Maybe the sword is the talisman of his power, who knows.

Both the angel and the horse are somewhere between skeleton and flesh, but not zombified. I tried to mix elements of both without becoming either, or just a animated corpse. Minor things, both their noses are skull with skin, but I put flesh where needed to convey emotion or musculature.

I am fond of the dude in the foreground who is amid the detonation, I feel I did a good job with the foreshortening, and especially like the way the hand “blocking” the explosion has Subsurface scattering.

All in all the painting is a little bit muddied, too much detail, dust and shredded stuff makes it read poorly as a small image, but in the end I still enjoy the image and am glad I decided to finish it.]]> Thu, 14 May 2009 19:31:16 +0000 http://christianhammer.cgsociety.org/gallery/762864

This digital painting was done entirely in Photoshop. I tried to do it without reference and in the end I only used it to confirm detail. I have about 16 hours of total time into the painting.

This is the first in a series of related painting on generally the same theme, which comes from a personal encounter with a Pacific giant Octopus while diving in Puget Sound. I was using my light to look into a jetty wall, and a big orange tentacle came out and grabbed my light. Slowly the rest of the octopus emerged and attached more and more tentacles to the light. So I let go of it. The octopus seemed to be checking it out. once it decided it was neither threat nor food, it let go of the light and went back into it’s lair.]]> Tue, 12 May 2009 13:53:17 +0000 http://christianhammer.cgsociety.org/gallery/744512

Well it can't all be snarl's and drool.
I loved the sketch this is based on. It just caught me as funny.

It is one of those images that just makes itself, and I was lucky enough to be holding the stylus/pencil.

I have about 5 hours of total time involved in this image. 1/2 hour sketch and about 4 hours of painting.

So if you ever wondered what aliens do when they aren't destroying people and devouring buildings...now you know. ]]> Sat, 21 Mar 2009 13:55:05 +0000 http://christianhammer.cgsociety.org/gallery/728779

Just a painting I was doing for fun. This is one rabid rodent, with a violent streak a mile long. Created in photoshop.]]> Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:00:53 +0000